unofficial news concerning RUNEQUEST TDM

From: llabrot <labrot.laurent_at_hol.fr>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:05:27 +0200


Unofficial rumor on french rpg market state that a french RPG company (not Oriflam) are going to take contact with Hasbro in order to know the exact price for RUNEQUEST TDM. Frenchs know that hasbro staff is actually thinking to create a new department for wargames and boardgames, but are not willing to take any risk with RPG Runequest slayers, considered by internal Hasbro expert to be a total commercial faillure if published. Runequest being not well know in the US by young gamers, and associated with Chaosium gloranthan world for decades by all the others, Hasbro will lower the price, having anybody able to make an offer, Chaosium stating that Runequest is already a dead game. Following an internal Hasbro advice, selling can be possible at incredible low cost...
This information is confidential, and i can not say more, but facts are established
  1. Chaosium/ Issaries can try to make a purposal to Hasbro, frenchs are agree to abandon in this case, having any will to contest creators of the original game
  2. Fans can make a purposal and subscribe, frenchs will retire too in this case
  3. anybody can express an opinion, the company is willing to move if nobody else manifest any interrest in the case... french Runequest market was and maybe rest the first in the world

note that i'm not involve in this case, just reporting ...


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